The boom in renewable energy installations in China is exacerbating a problem measuring power production data in the world’s second largest economy. The gap between electricity consumption, as measured by the National Energy Administration, and power production calculated by the National Bureau of Statistics grew to 46.5 billion kilowatt-hours in March. That means 6.2% of power generation was missing from monthly output statistics that investors and policymakers use to assess important economic growth factors like gross domestic product. The issue is that consumption data covers the entire country, but output data is ... (full story)